Arthur William Conway

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Arthur William Conway (born October 2, 1875 in Wexford , † July 11, 1950 in Dublin ) was an Irish mathematician and theoretical physicist .

Life

Conway studied at University College Dublin from 1892 and received his bachelor's degree (top of his class) in 1896 and a master's degree in mathematics (also with top grades) at the Royal University of Ireland (the University College then had no official university Status). He then studied at the University of Oxford (Corpus Christi College) with Augustus Edward Hough Lovewho strongly influenced him and with whom he later corresponded. In 1901 he became professor of mathematical physics at University College Dublin. He also had fellowships from Corpus Christi College in Oxford and the Royal University of Ireland and was a teacher at St. Patrick's College in Maynooth. In 1903 he married Agnes Bingham, with whom he had three daughters and a son. 1940 to 1947 he was President of University College Dublin.

One of his students was the future Irish President Éamon de Valera , who later called him in to found the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies .

At the beginning of the 20th century he dealt with the theory of electromagnetism (electron theory) and the theory of spectra. He was in contact with Love and Joseph Larmor . He is known for the application of quaternions in special relativity theory (1911, 1912), independent of Ludwik Silberstein . As a science historian, he dealt particularly with the Irish inventor of the quaternions William Rowan Hamilton and edited with John Lighton Synge and AJ McConnell Hamilton's mathematical works.

He was invited speaker several times at the International Congress of Mathematicians (1924, 1932, 1936). He was a Fellow of the Royal Society and President of the Royal Irish Academy from 1937 to 1940 .

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  • J. McConnell (Ed.), Selected papers of Arthur William Conway, Dublin, 1953

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SURNAME Conway, Arthur William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish mathematician and physicist
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Wexford
DATE OF DEATH July 11, 1950
Place of death Dublin